We are delighted to announce that the 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics will take place online from October 17 to 19, 2025. This year’s theme, “Discourse Pragmatics, Online Interaction, and the Age of AI,” responds to the urgent need to understand how digital technologies and algorithmic mediation are reshaping the conditions of human communication in profound ways. As digital platforms, social media, and AI-driven interfaces become central to everyday interaction, question

Templatic morphology is characterised by morphological exponents that are either expressed by an invariant prosodic shape or by affixes that require a templatic form of the base to which they attach. The clearest examples can be found in Afroasiatic languages, as well as in some languages of California, e.g., Palestinian Arabic suxn ‘hot’, b-yusxun ‘it becomes hot’, saxxan ‘he heated (sth.) up’, sxuːne ‘fever’, and Sierra Miwok hallik-ihhɨʔ ‘he used to hunt’, halik-mehnɨhakt̪eʔ ‘I was hunting on

The axis “Lexique” at the research unit “Analyse et Traitement Automatique de la Langue Française” (ATILF - CNRS/UL - UMR 7118) is organizing an international conference on the topic of lexicons from December 16 to 18, 2026 at the ATILF laboratory in Nancy (France). The aim of this scientific event is to bring together junior and experienced researchers to discuss current research issues in a major field of linguistics, and one which is at the core of communication and human relations: the lexi

We invite abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the 12th edition of the Sociolinguistics Circle, to be held in Brussels on April 24th, 2026. Contributions should deal with topics in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, dialectology, variationist linguistics, social dimensions of multilingualism and language contact, language policy and planning, or related disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars with a connection to the Low Countries and/or on topics relevant to lang

Registrations Now Open: https://www.ufs.ac.za/conferences/conference/2025-ispn-home Also note the two workshops that have been added to the programme. The Department of South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies at the University of the Free State (RSA), in partnership with the Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy as well as the ICOS Working Group on Toponymy, is pleased to announce the next biennial international symposium on place names – ISPN 2025. Place names serve a dual purpose. O

In our workshop, we aim to bridge the gap between grammatical theories and empirical research, addressing the need for exploring how theoretical grammar can be used to systematically classify and investigate indeterminacy. The following research questions will be discussed in our workshop: - Which phenomena of indeterminacy (ambiguity, vagueness and polysemy) can be found in grammar? - On which linguistic levels (word types, sentence structure, morphological structures) are they located?

Description: Diversity has always been a defining characteristic of human societies. Historically, ‘Man’ has been inclined towards ‘difference’, be it racial, ethnic, or religious. This has resulted in a constant enriching cultural move (Harari, 2011; Graeber and Wengrow, 2021). In today’s world, diversity has become endemic in human life. Theoreticians like Derrida, Habermas, Geertz and others have broadened this concern to include political, economic, and social dimensions. In the context

We are pleased to announce the 14th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, which will take place on 2 - 5 September 2026. The conference is organised jointly by the Faculty of English and the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. We warmly invite you to submit your original research contributions on any facet of multilingualism, focusing on the acquisition or use of three or more languages. We encourage

The conference is intended as a platform for scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, particularly in relation to various research areas connected with language, including cognitive linguistics, contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, cultural linguistics, socio- and psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition and learning, lexicology and lexicography, pragmatics, terminology and terminography, and translation studies. Proposals in other relevant research areas are

Institutions across higher education, legislative bodies, the judiciary, public broadcasting, and public health agencies exert significant influence through their communication practices, yet they often reproduce biases embedded in traditional linguistic conventions. Recent global events have also emphasized the imperative for these institutions to guarantee both the broad dissemination of information and the protection of public well-being via accessible, unbiased, representative, and inclusive

We are pleased to invite submissions for ISLA2026: Isolated Languages Workshop, to be held at Ghent University on March 19-20, 2026. This conference aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines to explore the linguistic, sociocultural, and genetic aspects of speakers of languages that cannot be (straightforwardly) incorporated into larger genealogical units. Isolate languages and (small) language families with no connection to higher-order branches of known phyla offer limited possib

*** English version below*** Wanneer? Op vrijdag 31 oktober 2025 organiseert de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen weer de jaarlijkse Dag van de Fonetiek. Call for papers We willen u van harte uitnodigen een bijdrage in te dienen voor een presentatie. Deze kan gaan over lopend of recent-afgerond fonetisch onderzoek binnen de empirisch-wetenschappelijke traditie, en/of demonstraties van nieuwe applicaties of methodes op het gebied van spraakonderzoek. Ingediende abstract

Law is interpreted and implemented by many hands. Some of them belong to judges, legislators, or lawyers—but many belong to nurses, teachers, municipal officials, or department heads: professionals who encounter law not in courtrooms or casebooks, but in institutional documents, contracts, checklists, and internal protocols. These actors do not interpret law as legal theorists or as abstract "laypeople," but as role-bound individuals embedded in specific organizational contexts. Their understand

We are pleased to announce a conference on Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond, which will take place at the University of Cambridge on 26-28 March 2026, at Jesus College and at the Faculty of Classics. The theme is how Third Wave approaches can enhance our understanding of variation in ancient languages, and how we can integrate such approaches with previous methodologies. We focus especially on new methodologies and new corpora, with languag

The 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations To be held in Prague, Czechia, August 4-5, 2025, following ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Registration for DMR 2025 is now open! Registration is FREE and includes access to all DMR 2025 events, including exciting keynotes from Roberto Navigli and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, a free-form discussion on the role of meaning representations in the age of LLMs, and the social dinner on August 4. The registration form is available at https:/

We are delighted to announce that the 8th Prescriptivism Conference will be hosted by Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and will take place in Brussels on 24-26 June 2026. Building on the success of previous conferences held in Sheffield (2003), Ragusa (2006), Toronto (2009), Leiden (2013), Park City, Utah (2017), Vigo (2021), and Aix-en-Provence (2024), this edition continues the tradition of exploring prescriptivism in its many historical, cultural, and linguistic manifestations. The theme of the

We are pleased to announce the OCP23 Satellite Workshop on The Role of Representation in Computational Phonology to be held on 13 January at the University of Cambridge. Phonological representations minimally assume linearly ordered elements, and have been augmented to include hierarchical structure like prosodic categories and non-linear structure like autosegmental tiers. McCarthy’s (1988:84) often quoted adage, “if the representations are right, then the rules will follow” implies the anal

Migration has long been a defining force of globalization, but its impact is experienced unequally across different regions. The Global South, in particular, bears the brunt of migration’s complex social, economic, and linguistic ramifications. Whether driven by economic disparity, political unrest, or digital labor economies, migration reconfigures how language functions. It not only serves as a medium of communication, but it is used as a tool of power, negotiation, resistance, and identity fo

The Discourse Research Association of Ireland (DRAOI) is pleased to announce the full schedule for our fifth annual Summer Seminar Series, taking place online every Wednesday* at 15:00 Irish Standard Time during July and August 2025. All seminars are free and open to the public. Join us for a vibrant series of talks by researchers working across discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, multimodality, discourse theory, and more. July 9 July Liz Kiely, University College Cork ‘What about t

Description: The goal of this panel is to maintain the meeting space for linguists working on ellipsis that was initiated at the LII Simposio de la SEL, held in Madrid in 2024. Given that the panel was successful in 2024 (researchers from different universities and countries, such as Spain, Germany, the United States and Poland attended), we believe that the session can provide a fruitful meeting space at the LIV Simposio de la SEL. Ellipsis is the anaphoric phenomenon that has aroused mos